Chiaroscuro Quartet Plays More Haydn
The String Quartets Op. 76 by Haydn are among the most renowned of Joseph Haydn’s sets of quartets, and they carry the stamp of their creator: No other set of eighteenth-century string quartets is so …
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Christiane Karg sings Mozart and More…
Soprano Christiane Karg was born in Feuchtwangen, Bavaria. She studied singing at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Heiner Hopfner and Wolfgang Holzmair, where she was awarded the Lilli Lehmann Medal. She also studied at the Music …
The Life of Conductor Sir Georg Solti
Georg Solti’s career really began after the end of World War II. For almost 25 years, he concentrated entirely on conducting operas. He was chief musical director of the Munich Opera from 1947 to 1951 …
Yuja Wang Plays the Concerto #2 By Johannes Brahms
The Brahms Concerto in B-flat, in four movements rather than the usual three, opens with a marvelous, mood-setting horn call that seems to gather all the other instruments, with the piano responding to its graceful …
Tabea Zimmermann Plays the Brahms Viola Sonata #2
The two sonatas Opus 120 by Brahms were published for clarinet or viola, and later adjusted for violin and piano. They have become an essential element in viola repertoire, featuring the darker tones of the …